Patents by Inventor Yuki Hokari
Yuki Hokari has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11878516Abstract: A tape cassette includes: a tape roll which is a roll of a tape wound about an axis extending in a first direction; and a nipping member configured to nip the tape conveyed in a second direction in cooperation with a conveying roller of a printing device. The nipping member includes: a first region configured to face one end portion of the tape; a second region configured to face another end portion of the tape; and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region. The first region and an imaginary reference surface provide a first length in a third direction. The second region and the imaginary reference surface provide a second length in the third direction. The third region and the imaginary reference surface provide a third length in the third direction. The third length is greater than the first length and the second length.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Hokari, Shota Iijima, Masaya Fujita, Satoru Ito
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Patent number: 11804153Abstract: A medium is configured to be mounted in and printed with a printer. The medium includes: a release material; and a printing label. The release material is provided with a cut-out area. The cut-out area is surrounded by a hole or a cut or a series of holes or a series of cuts and has at least a first side and a second side. The first side and the second side oppose each other. The printing label is affixed to the release material so as to extend across the first side and the second side of the cut-out area. The first side and the second side are configured to include different types of the holes or the cuts or the series of holes or the series of cuts from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiori Mizutani, Yuki Hokari
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Patent number: 11760115Abstract: A tape cassette used for a printer includes a thermal head and a cassette holder to which the tape cassette is attachable. The tape cassette includes a tape roll, a casing, a regulation guide and a pressure member. The tape roll is formed by winding a tape. The tape has a width defining a widthwise direction. The casing accommodates therein the tape roll. A tape conveying passage is defined in the casing. The regulation guide is positioned at the tape conveying passage to restrict displacement of the tape in the widthwise direction. The pressure member is positioned upstream of the regulation guide in a conveying direction of the tape and along the tape conveying passage. The pressure member is in contact with the tape in a contacting direction to apply pressing force to the tape in the contacting direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shota Iijima, Yuki Hokari, Satoru Ito, Masaya Fujita
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Publication number: 20220013042Abstract: A medium is configured to be mounted in and printed with a printer. The medium includes: a release material; and a printing label. The release material is provided with a cut-out area. The cut-out area is surrounded by a hole or a cut or a series of holes or a series of cuts and has at least a first side and a second side. The first side and the second side oppose each other. The printing label is affixed to the release material so as to extend across the first side and the second side of the cut-out area. The first side and the second side are configured to include different types of the holes or the cuts or the series of holes or the series of cuts from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Shiori MIZUTANI, Yuki HOKARI
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Publication number: 20220013043Abstract: A label is to be wrapped around an adherend after being printed. The adherend has a diameter equal to or smaller than a prescribed diameter. In the label, a base material has a printing surface. An adhesive layer is provided on an opposite side surface of the base material from the printing surface. A release material is bonded to the adhesive layer with a portion of the adhesive layer exposed. The release material has a higher stiffness than the base material. A mark for alignment is to be used when bonding together exposed sections of the adhesive layer or an exposed section of the adhesive layer with the release material in order to form the label into a loop shape. The mark is provided at a position for forming the label in the loop shape having an inner diameter greater than the prescribed diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Masaya FUJITA, Shiori MIZUTANI, Yuki HOKARI, Chie NAKASHIMA, Shohei TSUCHIMORI, Takaaki BANNO
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Publication number: 20210217329Abstract: A medium to be mounted in and to be printed with a printer includes: a release material; a slit; and a print label. The release material is opaque. The slit is provided in the release material and has a square shape including a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side. The first side and the second side oppose each other. The third side and the fourth side oppose each other. The print label is fixed to the release material so as to span across the first side of the slit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Chie Nakashima, Yuki Hokari, Takaaki Banno
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Publication number: 20210095164Abstract: A tape cassette includes a tape, a transparent cover film, and an ink ribbon. The tape has a thickness in a thickness direction and a width in a width direction. The tape is configured of a plurality of laminated layers including: a transparent base layer; a background layer having a width smaller than the width of the tape in the width direction; and a release layer constituting one surface of the tape in the thickness direction. The transparent cover film is to be bonded to the tape. The ink ribbon contains ink to be transferred to one of the tape and the cover film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Shohei Tsuchimori, Yuki Hokari, Chie Nakashima, Takahiro Norimatsu
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Publication number: 20210031546Abstract: A tape cassette used for a printer includes a thermal head and a cassette holder to which the tape cassette is attachable. The tape cassette includes a tape roll, a casing, a regulation guide and a pressure member. The tape roll is formed by winding a tape. The tape has a width defining a widthwise direction. The casing accommodates therein the tape roll. A tape conveying passage is defined in the casing. The regulation guide is positioned at the tape conveying passage to restrict displacement of the tape in the widthwise direction. The pressure member is positioned upstream of the regulation guide in a conveying direction of the tape and along the tape conveying passage. The pressure member is in contact with the tape in a contacting direction to apply pressing force to the tape in the contacting direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Shota Iijima, Yuki Hokari, Satoru Ito, Masaya Fujita
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Publication number: 20200406647Abstract: A tape cassette includes: a tape roll which is a roll of a tape wound about an axis extending in a first direction; and a nipping member configured to nip the tape conveyed in a second direction in cooperation with a conveying roller of a printing device. The nipping member includes: a first region configured to face one end portion of the tape; a second region configured to face another end portion of the tape; and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region. The first region and an imaginary reference surface provide a first length in a third direction. The second region and the imaginary reference surface provide a second length in the third direction. The third region and the imaginary reference surface provide a third length in the third direction. The third length is greater than the first length and the second length.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Yuki Hokari, Shota Iijima, Masaya Fujita, Satoru Ito
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Patent number: 8318837Abstract: A method of controlling a moisture resistance of polyglycolic acid resin, by controlling a total carboxyl group-source concentration including a contribution of residual glycolide. As a result, a moisture resistance governing the change of strength with time of the polyglycolic acid resin is controlled at a good accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Kureha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Sato, Yuki Hokari, Kazuyuki Yamane, Fuminori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8293826Abstract: An aliphatic polyester resin composition of improved moisture resistance formed by adding a phosphoric or phosphorous acid ester having a basicity of at most 1.4 of a saturated aliphatic alcohol having 8-24 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2006Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Kureha CorporationInventors: Yuki Hokari, Tsukasa Ikeda, Kazuyuki Yamane
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Publication number: 20120178870Abstract: An aromatic polyester resin composition, comprising: a melt-kneaded product of 99-70 wt. parts of an aromatic polyester resin and 1-30 wt. parts (providing a total of 100 wt. parts together with the aromatic polyester resin) of a polyglycolic acid resin, wherein the aromatic polyester resin is an aromatic polyester resin polymerized with an antimony compound (catalyst), the polyglycolic acid resin is a polyglycolic acid resin obtained by ring-opening polymerization of glycolide, and the composition further contains a metal-deactivating agent in a proportion of 17-500 mol. % with respect to the antimony in the aromatic polyester resin. As a result, gas generation during the melt-processing of a composition obtained by adding a relatively small amount of polyglycolic acid resin to an aromatic polyester resin is effectively suppressed to provide an aromatic polyester resin composition with a good gas-barrier property.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Inventors: Hiroyuki SATO, Kazuyuki Yamane, Yuki Hokari, Fuminori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8163866Abstract: An aromatic polyester resin composition, including: a melt-kneaded product of 99-70 wt. parts of an aromatic polyester resin and 1-30 wt. parts (providing a total of 100 wt. parts together with the aromatic polyester resin) of a polyglycolic acid resin, wherein the aromatic polyester resin is an aromatic polyester resin polymerized with a germanium compound (catalyst), and the polyglycolic acid resin is a polyglycolic acid resin obtained by ring-opening polymerization of glycolide. As a result, gas generation during the melt-processing of a composition obtained by adding a relatively small amount of polyglycolic acid resin to an aromatic polyester resin is effectively suppressed to provide an aromatic polyester resin composition with a good gas-barrier property.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Kureha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Sato, Kazuyuki Yamane, Yuki Hokari, Fuminori Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8133955Abstract: An aromatic polyester resin composition, comprising: a melt-kneaded product of 99-70 weight parts of an aromatic polyester resin and 1-30 wt. parts (providing a total of 100 wt. parts together with the aromatic polyester resin) of a polyglycolic acid resin, wherein the composition is characterized by a transesterification rate CTE (%) of 20-60% determined by formula (1) below based on a peak integration ratio of methylene group in polyglycolic acid appearing at ?4.87 ppm with reference to tetramethylsilane according to 1H-NMR measurement: CTE (%)=(1?I(B)/I(A))×100??(1), wherein I (A): a peak integration ratio of the methylene group of the polyglycolic acid main chain with respect to the alkylene group of the aromatic polyester main chain calculated from the components weight ratio; and I (B): a peak integration ratio of the methylene group of polyglycolic acid main chain to the alkylene group of the aromatic polyester main chain in the resin composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Kureha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Sato, Kazuyuki Yamane, Yuki Hokari, Fuminori Kobayashi, Toshihiko Ono
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Publication number: 20110108185Abstract: There is provided a laminate sheet which is excellent in oxygen-barrier property and moisture resistance, biodegradable as a whole and therefore suitable as a base material for packaging materials, such as food containers. The laminate sheet is formed by laminating a water-containable and biodegradable polymer substrate sheet or a precursor thereof in a water-containing state with a layer of polyglycolic acid resin having a residual monomer content below 0.5 wt. % to form a laminate, and subjecting the laminate to bonding and forming under heat and pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki HOKARI, Kazuyuki YAMANE, Juichi WAKABAYASHI, Takehisa SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20110105699Abstract: An aromatic polyester resin composition, including: a melt-kneaded product of 99-70 wt. parts of an aromatic polyester resin and 1-30 wt. parts (providing a total of 100 wt. parts together with the aromatic polyester resin) of a polyglycolic acid resin, wherein the aromatic polyester resin is an aromatic polyester resin polymerized with a germanium compound (catalyst), and the polyglycolic acid resin is a polyglycolic acid resin obtained by ring-opening polymerization of glycolide. As a result, gas generation during the melt-processing of a composition obtained by adding a relatively small amount of polyglycolic acid resin to an aromatic polyester resin is effectively suppressed to provide an aromatic polyester resin composition with a good gas-barrier property.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: Hiroyuki Sato, Kazuyuki Yamane, Yuki Hokari, Fuminori Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20110045235Abstract: A method for manufacturing a porous polymer molded article, comprising a step of laminating a first mask with a plurality of openings formed therein and a second mask with a plurality of openings formed therein and having a mean opening diameter that is larger than the mean opening diameter of the first mask, on a polymer molded article, and a step of forming through-holes in the polymer molded article by dry etching from the second mask side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2008Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Yamane, Yuki Hokari, Toshihiko Ono, Takeshi Saitou
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Publication number: 20110008578Abstract: A method for producing a polymer molded body, comprising a step of forming a recess in a polymer structure containing a polyglycolic acid by dry etching the polymer structure at a vacuum degree of 50 mTorr or less, an output of 1-6 W and a current of 3 mA or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Yamane, Takeshi Saitou, Yuki Hokari
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Publication number: 20100286317Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition containing a resin component composed of 55 to 99% by mass of polypropylene and 1 to 45% by mass of polyglycolic acid, and a reactive compatibilizing agent in a proportion of 0.3 to 30 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the resin component; a formed product composed of the polypropylene resin composition, wherein a dispersed phase of the polyglycolic acid residing in the morphology that the polyglycolic acid is dispersed as individually independent thin films exists in a matrix of the polypropylene; and a production process of the formed product.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: Kureha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Sato, Kazuyuki Yamane, Yuki Hokari, Nanako Kuruhara, Takaya Noguchi
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Publication number: 20100215858Abstract: A polyglycolic acid resin-based multilayer sheet is formed by laminating a biological polymer substrate sheet and a polyglycolic acid resin with each other via an aqueous adhesive layer. The multilayer sheet is formed of biodegradable materials as a whole and allows recovery of paper, etc. alone, as desired, by preferential decomposition of the resin, thus being suitable as a packaging material stock for food container, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: KUREHA CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki YAMANE, Yukichika Kawakami, Yuki Hokari